A huge foreign body in the orbit
Korynta, J.; Kozák, J.; Ramba, J.
Ceska a Slovenska Oftalmologie Casopis Ceske Oftalmologicke Spolecnosti a Slovenske Oftalmologicke Spolecnosti 57(1): 47-50
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 1211-9059 PMID: 11255778 Document Number: 528825
The authors present an account on a two-year-old child which while playing pushed the broken end of a pencil into the orbit above the bulbus. With regard to the nature of the object it was extracted by two-stage surgery. The injury did not affect the child's ocular functions.